Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Grenagh North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grenagh North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.01319, -8.61382
- SMR number
- CO051-106002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In N half of graveyard (CO051-106001-). Remains of rectangular church (int: E-W c. 22.5m; 6.55m N-S); all that now stand are ivy-clad E gable, E end of S wall (L 13.5m) and NW corner; N wall reduced to sod-covered foundations. In centre of E gable is window with double ogee-headed light, sunken spandrels, mullion missing. Wall press at E end of S wall; wide ope (wth 3.36m) immediatly to its W shows signs of recent repair work. Embedded in S wall is rotary quern stone; on ground, just inside S wall, is cut-limestone arch stone, with chamfered edge, from door surround; in graveyard head of single ogee light, with sunken spandrels. Surviving remains of late-medieval character. Formerly parish church of Grenagh; in ruins by 1615 (Brady 1867, vol. 2, 229).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.